Blue-tailed Hummingbird / Amazilia cyanura
Blue-tailed Hummingbird
SCI Name:
Protonym: Amazilia cyanura Monogr.Trochil. pt18 pl.12,text
Taxonomy: Caprimulgiformes / Trochilidae / Amazilia
Taxonomy Code: blthum1
Type Locality: Realejo, Nicaragua.
Author: Gould
Publish Year: 1859
IUCN Status: Least Concern
DEFINITIONS
AMAZILIA
(Trochilidae; Ϯ Cinnamon Hummingbird A. rutila) Specific name Ornismya amazilia Lesson, 1828 (see amazilia); "Race: Les AMAZILIS, amazilia, Less. — (pl. 73.) L'ois. mouche lumachelle: Ornysmia lumachella, Less., rev. zool. p. 315. Hab.: Bahia. — (pl. 74.) L'ois. mouche beau: Ornysmia eximia, Delattre, écho, 1813, Hab.: Guatimala. — (pl. 75) L'ois. mouche canelle: Ornysmia cinnamomea, Less., rev. zoolog., 1842, p. 175; Orn. rufula, Delattre, écho, 1843. Hab: Acapulco, Guatimala. (pl. 76) L'ois. m. Clarisse: Ornysmia clarisse, Longuemare, rev. zool., 1841, p. 306. H. Santa-Fe-de-Bogota." (Lesson 1843); "Amazilia Lesson, Écho du Monde Sav., 1843, col. 757. Type, by subsequent designation, Ornismya cinnamomea Lesson = Ornismia rutila DeLattre. (Stone, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philas., 1918, p. 256.)" (Peters 1945, V, p. 61). I have elsewhere suggested that the substantive name Amazili be given to the hummingbirds of this genus.
Var. Amazillia.
Synon. Agyrtria, Albanora, Amazilicus, Amazilina, Amazilius, Amizilis, Arena, Arenella, Ariadne, Ariana, Chionogaster, Chionomesa, Cyanomyia, Elliotia, Eranna, Eratina, Eratopis, Erythronota, Eucephala, Hemistilbon, Hemithylaca, Hypochionis, Leucodora, Lisoria, Myletes, Polyerata, Pyrrhophaena, Saucerottia, Uranomitra.
amazilia
Amazili, an Inca heroine in Jean Marmontel’s novel (1777) “Les Incas, ou la destruction de l’Empire du Pérou” (Amazilia (“le nom de cette espèce rappellera à l’imagination de nos lecteurs une des héroïnes célébrées par Marmontel dans ses Incas, et en même temps les lieux où elle vit” (Lesson 1830), subsp. Columbina minuta).
cyanura
Gr. κυανος kuanos dark-blue; -ουρος -ouros -tailed < ουρα oura tail.
● ex “Garza cuello aplomado” of de Azara 1802-1805, no. 358 (syn. Butorides striata).
● (Boddaert 1783) ex “Merle de la Guiane” of d’Aubenton 1765-1781, pl. 355 (syn. Hydrornis guajanus).
● (J. Gmelin 1789) ex “Merle de la Guiane” of d’Aubenton 1765-1781, pl. 355, “Azurin” of de Buffon 1770-1783, and “Blue-tailed Thrush” of Latham 1783 (syn. Hydrornis guajanus).
SUBSPECIES
Blue-tailed Hummingbird (guatemalae)
SCI Name: Amazilia cyanura guatemalae
guatemalae / guatemalensis / guatimalensis
Guatemala (Nahuatl name Cuauhtēmallān place of many trees).
Blue-tailed Hummingbird (cyanura)
SCI Name: Amazilia cyanura cyanura
cyanura
Gr. κυανος kuanos dark-blue; -ουρος -ouros -tailed < ουρα oura tail.
● ex “Garza cuello aplomado” of de Azara 1802-1805, no. 358 (syn. Butorides striata).
● (Boddaert 1783) ex “Merle de la Guiane” of d’Aubenton 1765-1781, pl. 355 (syn. Hydrornis guajanus).
● (J. Gmelin 1789) ex “Merle de la Guiane” of d’Aubenton 1765-1781, pl. 355, “Azurin” of de Buffon 1770-1783, and “Blue-tailed Thrush” of Latham 1783 (syn. Hydrornis guajanus).
Blue-tailed Hummingbird (impatiens)
SCI Name: Amazilia cyanura impatiens
impatiens
L. impatiens, impatientis impatient, unable to endure < in- not; patiens, patientis enduring < pati to suffer.
UPPERCASE: current genus
Uppercase first letter: generic synonym
● and ● See: generic homonyms
lowercase: species and subspecies
●: early names, variants, mispellings
‡: extinct
†: type species
Gr.: ancient Greek
L.: Latin
<: derived from
syn: synonym of
/: separates historical and modern geographic names
ex: based on
TL: type locality
OD: original diagnosis (genus) or original description (species)